What a lot of people seem to be missing in their rush to gloat about a problem in OS X, is that these problems are caused by a hack.
I'm not saying that Apple software is bug free (far from it actually), but Application Enhancer is a big, ugly, nasty hack, and I've always refused to put it on any of my systems, even before all of this Leopard blue screen stuff happened.
It's been known for a while that APE is a problem, and many people strongly discourage its use. The problem is that a lot of add ons rely on it as a framework, so people end up installing it without realizing what they're doing.
A selection of quotes from Wikipedia to drive this home:
"Many developers ... advise users to remove Application Enhancer modules, the Application Enhancer framework, and the Application Enhancer daemon before contacting customer support for help with their applications."
"Application Enhancer modules are also a source of controversy amongst system administrators who regularly run into stability issues on computers running the Application Enhancer framework."
"The Application Enhancer framework has also been a source of controversy for security issues exposed in the Month of Apple Bugs when it was found Unsanity were leaving a root-enabled executable fully accessible (and writable) by non-root accounts."
In short, it's a terrible piece of software, and no one should have it installed.
on one hand if Apple would get their head out of their ass and add customization to their OS people wouldn't be downloading apps such as these.
On the other hand users should know better then to install such apps on a newly released OS that developers have had less then 2 days access to. (Developers didn't get access to the GM until Late Friday.) So in both cases I'd guess 30% of this is Apple's fault. The rest is all about a dumb user.
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What a lot of people seem to be missing in their rush to gloat about a problem in OS X, is that these problems are caused by a hack.
I'm not saying that Apple software is bug free (far from it actually), but Application Enhancer is a big, ugly, nasty hack, and I've always refused to put it on any of my systems, even before all of this Leopard blue screen stuff happened.
It's been known for a while that APE is a problem, and many people strongly discourage its use. The problem is that a lot of add ons rely on it as a framework, so people end up installing it without realizing what they're doing.
A selection of quotes from Wikipedia to drive this home:
"Many developers ... advise users to remove Application Enhancer modules, the Application Enhancer framework, and the Application Enhancer daemon before contacting customer support for help with their applications."
"Application Enhancer modules are also a source of controversy amongst system administrators who regularly run into stability issues on computers running the Application Enhancer framework."
"The Application Enhancer framework has also been a source of controversy for security issues exposed in the Month of Apple Bugs when it was found Unsanity were leaving a root-enabled executable fully accessible (and writable) by non-root accounts."
In short, it's a terrible piece of software, and no one should have it installed.
on one hand if Apple would get their head out of their ass and add customization to their OS people wouldn't be downloading apps such as these.
On the other hand users should know better then to install such apps on a newly released OS that developers have had less then 2 days access to. (Developers didn't get access to the GM until Late Friday.)
So in both cases I'd guess 30% of this is Apple's fault. The rest is all about a dumb user.